Whether she is helping couples develop healthy life patterns or coaching parents on how to live, love, and lead well in their own homes, she is passionate about meeting each person where they are and empowering them to find hope for a more promising future. The role of a family therapist is to facilitate conversations that act as catalysts to strengthen and improve existing connections between family members and/or loved ones. Tundi is able to help individuals, couples and families identify unhealthy patterns of behavior and intervene at the point of choice using an eclectic blend of strategies. She incorporates strategies from proven therapies such as structural, strategic, transgenerational, cognitive-behavior and the Soul Healing Love Model developed by Dr. Bev and Tom Rogers. Tundi believes that we are all striving to tear down the strongholds of generational curses that plague our families, to dispel the lies we swallow, and break the limits and barriers that prevent us from living fully transformed and free. Transformation is a personal journey of discovery yet it takes place in the midst of the complex, multigenerational world we live in. Transformation begins with the admission that a war between our selfish desires and God’s will for our lives is taking place within us—and that by yourself, we cannot overcome it. In Romans 7:15-19 (NIV), the apostle Paul admits to such a war even in himself. None of us should let those negative self-talk or experiences hold us back from the transformation God wants to bring to our life.

Having a passion for families, Tundi has seen the breakdown or struggle happen at different points in the family system, involving different combinations of family members. Sometimes the rub is between a mom and daughter or mom and son, other times its between dad and daughter or dad and son. Sometimes the friction exists between the parents and the kids, and other times the struggle is between the couple itself, typically related to either parenting or marriage. When it’s related to the marriage it can present in many ways; finances, communication, misaligned expectations, intimacy and sometimes infidelity. Whatever relationship dynamic brings you to a point of seeking help for an individual member, the family as a whole or varying combinations of members, Tundi can and will help you decipher the presenting issue(s) and help you or everyone involved move to a healthier place of being and connecting.

Tundi believes wholeheartedly that we should be good stewards of all that is entrusted to us. This belief stems from one of the core values at a place Tundi holds near and dear to her heart-Eagle Ranch. Eagle Ranch is a highly respected residential children’s program in northeast Georgia. Over her twenty year tenure at Eagle Ranch, Tundi had the honor and privilege of spending countless hours counseling families and children. As the Clinical Director, she worked closely with the counseling, school and residential staff to ensure that every family and child entrusted to them had a safe, grace filled environment to face their struggles head on and find greater emotional, relational and spiritual integrity. She has a special love for children and an ability to connect to them. She believes kids and especially teens need to be given a safe space and time to work through their struggles to fully grow into their identity. Helping pre-teens and teens maneuver through their complex world of social pressures, academic challenges, and often more significant personal issues such as anxiety, depression, anger or even addictions requires different types of “hands-on” interventions and experiences in addition to talk therapy. Using expressive tools and activities, such as role-playing, props, art, sand trays, music, or various forms of recreation helps children identify thoughts and emotions associated with their struggles and helps them develop long-term emotional intelligence and maturity.

Tundi is familiar with the challenges faced by parents that strive to balance the many demands in their lives. The struggles in a blended family can be exponentially greater. Facing the challenges of a blended family requires daily surrender and commitment for Tundi and her family as well. Relying heavily on a daily dose of grace and mercy along with her training, experiences, and the teachings of experts such as Ron Deal, Tundi understands that stepfamilies take time to form and blend.

Tundi is aware that typical marriage and family counseling are not sufficient for couples in stepfamilies. Since marriage in a stepfamily is a “package deal” it is important to minister to both the couple and “the package.” This means addressing dynamics related to ex-spouses and co-parenting, loss, stepparenting, boundaries, spiritual shame, finances, and the expectations of both children and adults–just to name a few. Tundi knows all too well that such stress can push healthy, hard working couples with the best of intentions toward heartache, distress, guilt, frustration, sadness, and a host of other emotions. It can cause them to lose focus on the parts of life that they value most, while compromising the relationships that matter most. Accepting each family’s unique challenges and opportunities is a tremendous first step to finding creative solutions to stepfamily dilemmas. There is nothing inherently wrong with being a “stepfamily”; it is neither better nor worse than other family types, just different. Every stepfamily also has unique characteristics that differ from intact families. Some parts function the same; some don’t. Learning to accept the past and being willing to embrace “different” helps every member of a blended family not only thrive but find joy in the new relationships.

Tundi’s passion for helping individuals and families live fully with purpose expands to helping leaders and organizations build healthy productive teams. The most valuable resource of all teams or groups is … the people! Keeping teams engaged, informed, energized and feeling psychologically safe are all part of growing and developing people within their teams to effect positive change. Team building and organizational health have been a big part of Tundi’s journey as a leader and coach. She has designed and led countless experiences for teams in the child care industry that center around the team’s needs, goals, and objectives. These shared experiences allow teams to learn, think, problem-solve, share, struggle and have FUN!